#varytale

[cyberpunklesbian]

I'd really like to design an IF but...

I have no coding experience. At all. I’ve been trying to find the easiest way to create an immersive IF where the characters and story adap

Going About Quality Based Narratives

Hello, I am coming here as a user of the Storynexus platform, working on a world there for over three years, learning all the way. I love t

[cyberpunklesbian]

Varytale Analytics

So Bee has been out for a couple of days now in reader beta, and my analytics page overflows. The Varytale system includes a mechanism by wh

Writing for Varytale

As mentioned in a previous post, Varytale is a platform for interactive stories. It’s put together by Ian Millington, the same person who cr

RIP Varytale :(

It seemed like a cool system. Dendry recapitulates basically all of its features though, as far as I can tell, except for the analytics. But it's a shame that the files for the other games (besides Bee) have been lost.

[textmachines]

Varytale describes itself as "a publisher and retailer of Interactive books". The books in question are read in a browser, and present choices, mainly at the end of the the segments. It seems they also use a somewhat unusual notion of sections of text that can be "finished". They seem to go for a serious the, and also point out that they are not about gaming but about telling stories. (just to be clear, I am not saying that games cannot be a serious as stories, interactive or otherwise). There's a story by Emily Short, who is one of the more respected authors of interactive stories. The authoring tools at varytale are closed for the moment, although you can request an account by e-mail. From what they say it's an online authoring tool, and it supports stateful stories. There Is also something called story points which control how fast you can read a story, and the option to charge for the stories either up front or to access parts of the story.

[michaelburnley]

Great post over at the Varytale blog on interactive fiction and its place in THE GREAT ART SPECTRUM.